Work is coming to an end in the next few weeks on building a new war museum in Carlisle including a reconstructed First World War trench.

Cumbria's Museum of Military Life at Carlisle Castle will feature the trench along with other exhibits reflecting the wars and conflicts the Kings Own Royal Border regiment has fought in.

Funding has come from a Heritage Lottery Grant. Credit: ITV Border

As well as the trench there will be displays of artefacts such as a bible with a German bullet from WW1- the bible saved the life of local soldier Private F Peil - and an original Lee Enfield rifle from 1914.

The bible that saved Private Peil's life. Credit: ITV Border

The museum is moving from its original home in another part of the castle to the Alma block which is where the regimental institute was based.

The new museum will also feature a section of troop train, an assault glider from the Second World War and field guns.

The museum is going to open late September and is all thanks to a Heritage Lottery Grant of £1.4 million.

An original Lee Enfield rifle from 1914 is among the collection. Credit: ITV Border

After this week's commemorations of the start of the First World War the museum and the regiment plan to mark other important events from 1914-1918 that affected the KOBR.

This week we've been bringing you stories marking the 100th anniversary of Britain's declaration of war on Germany. We've heard how millions of men died on the battlefields of Europe - many of them young foot soldiers not trained for what confronted them.

And in the battles of the Somme and Ypres, the officers also suffered high casualties. Leading from the front, they often ventured into no man's land during the night to try to reach their men who'd been injured.

Our reporter Paul Crone returned to his old school at Sedbergh in Cumbria to find out the heavy price many officers paid during the first world war.

The war was won at a terrible human cost and the man in charge of British military forces later became a much maligned figure.

Field Marshall Douglas Haig has been called the Butcher of the Somme, but he was also the person who helped set up the Royal British Legion and the Poppy Appeal. After the war he moved to a house in the Scottish Borders.

Fiona Armstrong has been looking at the links to our region of this controversial war leader.

At the time of the Great War the German emperor was Kaiser Wilhelm the second. But what's less known about him is his connection to Cumbria and his close friendship before the war with the Earl of Lonsdale.

On a state visit here, he was cheered by local people. But as war loomed, the friendship broke down and Lord Lonsdale eventually formed his own army battalion to fight the Germans.

Tim Backshall has been looking at the story of the friends who became foes.

The war may have been fought on foreign fields, but it changed the way things were done at home too. Women filled the jobs that had traditionally been taken by men, many of them vital to the war effort.

That included making munitions and the biggest munitions factory in Europe was on the border near Gretna.

Fiona McIlwraith has been along to the museum there, to find out more about the work done here, on the home front.